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CV – April 2011

Soren Duus Oestergaard
Senior eGovernment Advisor, CEO and co-founder of Duus.Communication
External Lecturer – eGovernment – IT University of Copenhagen 2010-
Associated member of EAFellows – a network of Enterprise Architect advisors

Age: 65
Years with IBM: 40
Married to Lisa Østergaard since 1967, 2 children, Kristian 1972, Anders 1974

Professional Profile

Soren worked with IBM from 1970 to 2010 in a number of management positions: Marketing
Training Manager for IBM for the Nordic Countries, Marketing Manager for Local Government
and Health Sector in Denmark, Account Planning and Financial Marketing Manager IBM DK Staff,
Marketing Manager for Education and Science Sector IBM Denmark, Public Sector Market
Development Manager, EU Program Manager for IBM Denmark, Nordic MultiMedia Marketing
Manager, e-business Marketing advisor IBM Nordics and senior eGovernment Advisor, EMEA,
within IBM Software Group from 1998 to 2010.

Experience

During Soren’s trainee period he worked at the Systems Engineering HQ of IBM Denmark.
In1970-71 he developed a proof-of-concept simulation model for container traffic management for
the Maersk Company. This later resulted in the creation of Maersk Logistics, acquired by IBM in
2005.

Soren developed the methodology to analyse the IT-requirements for information management
systems for local government through a major study together with Kommunedata DK (Later KMD),
the City of Aalborg and other IBM colleagues 1971-72, including the requirements for procurement
and financial management. As a result of this he was promoted to Government data processing
relations and Application development Account Representative.

Assisted the National Association for Local Government/National Government in DK to define the
requirements and design the IT architecture for the Financial System being implemented in the late
1970’s, initiated the development of a Local Government based decentralised financial management
system in 1978-1980.

In 1974-75 he was Marketing Training Manager for IBM Nordics responsible for internal training
of IBM'ers in the Nordic countries. He renewed the curriculum for the IBM’ers reflecting larger and
more complex Enterprise customers including Financial Management and Strategic Management as
topics in the curriculum.

Following a position as Marketing Manager for Local/regional Government and Health Sector,
Denmark, Soren was responsible for introducing IBM Leasing within IBM as well as ‘special bids’
– flexible contracts as a part of his responsibility for Account Planning for the large customers in
Denmark.
Soren was responsible for establishing and managing the Danish IBM Marketing and support team
for the Education and Science sector from 1983 to 1988, and during this period he assisted the
Ministry of Education in defining strategies, design of the new High School structure and new
topics, like Financial Management at high school level. A number of Study contract projects were
established testing and developing solutions for education and training using multimedia, distance
learning and advanced simulation and 3D graphic systems.

As responsible for Market Development, Public Sector (1988 – 1992), participated in selection of
decentralised financial management/ERP and procurement systems for Government and Public
Sector and developed methodology for Management Consulting approaches (TQM) to Government
and performed a number of consulting engagements, primarily with local governments during this
period. From '89 a number of EU related development programs were initiated with customers, and
Soren became a member of the Ministry of IT and Technology’s IMPACT –group representing the
IT industry. At the same time he represented the IT industry in the board of advisers for the
Telecommunication Board regarding IT support for handicapped and disabled.

As responsible for MultiMedia and Internet Solutions Soren and his team pioneered a number of
areas including videoconferencing and telemedicine, where the first Danish projects were launched
in 1992-1993 between Skive and Viborg hospitals. Also a number of the first Danish secure internet
payment solutions stating with the Egmont Bookstore and PBS were launched. This group also
pioneered large industries’ as well as city’s and Counties first web based solutions in Denmark.
3D visualization of architectural design and citizen internet services also were pioneered during the
mid 90’ies. In parallel, as an advisor to major industrial organisations Soren and his team assisted in
defined the Internet strategy for several companies, municipalities and counties (Health care,
Distribution, Retail, Media, Banking) also including their relationship with suppliers and buyers.

Soren worked closely with the IBM EMEA e-procurement organisation since it was founded in
1997 and participated in developing and testing strategic methods.

From 1998 he was named Senior e-government advisor, SWG Business Development Manager,
Government & Health Care Business Solutions Industry Leader, IBM North, Central, Eastern
Europe and Middle East.

As a senior e-government advisor he participated in a number of e-procurement cases. Soren has
been active in the Baltic Countries since mid 90'es, where he has discussed and advised on e-
government in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. He has participated in preparatory work for the e-
procurement activities of the World Health Organisation and given advice to the United Nations
Procurement Agency that is head quartered in Copenhagen. He became a member of the IBM
EMEA e-defence team in 2000.

During 2000-2001 Soren was the chairman of the ITB – The IT industry Association’s committee
for proposing strategic directions for the Government in relation to Broadband and is a member of
the Danish Broadband Think-tank.

He has been a keynote speaker on e-procurement in several international conferences in the Middle
East, in Riga, Tallinn, in den Hague NATO EPIS Conference in 2001, and a number of national
conferences in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. He has worked closely with the Danish Government
Procurement agency, SKI and has been instrumental to set up a global alliance between the business
partner Inno:vasion and IBM Lotus to market the Tendering Solution ETHICS – Electronic Tender
Handling and Information Communication System. This includes proposals to the World Bank and
to the EU. The solution is installed in Portugal for the Central Government (UMIC) and in Slovakia
(2006) for the Slovakian Ministry of Transportation/eGovernment office of Slovakia, recently in
Department of Health, Nuuk, Greenland. The solution has since been marketed globally by IBM
SWG Government industry team.

Soren has participated in a number of major proposals in the Middle East, Dubai Internet City, a
project for the IT design of a new city of 300.000 inhabitants and a number of smaller eGovernment
projects in the region. In 2003 he was the co-author of a white paper to the Government of Quatar
'The making of an e-Society'. Based partly on this recommendation, Quatar won the UN
eGovernment initiative award in 2004. He has advised Governments of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai,
Quatar and Oman on Service Oriented Architecture in relation to eGovernment.

Soren was a member of the Danish team of IBM’ers that was awarded the contract for qualified
software to ensure the implementation of the Danish Law on Digital Signatures. The tender
contract was awarded to 2 organisations accepted as qualified certification authorities and to 2 SW
vendors that are accepted as vendors on secure SW infrastructure for government agencies that want
to establish their own CA-service. In this capacity he has advised the Danish IT Task Force on ways
to implement Public Key Infrastructure at a large scale. He was for several years a member of
IBM’s global council for Privacy and has given a number of presentations on implementation of
PKI and security in the Baltic Countries, Poland, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Faroe Islands,
Telecities/EU, Central/Eastern Europe.

During 2002 Soren headed a consortium consisting of CSC, CapGemini, EDBGruppen, Dafolo,
Verisign proposing for the Danish PKI tender for 'lightweight' Digital Certificates. The consortium
was awarded a price for one of the best proposals. Later IBM and partners had to withdraw from
final tender because of insufficient public funding. And instead joined forces with the remaining 2
consortia offering a vast number of add on services needed for the Danish PKI infrastructure

Soren participated in the proposal team for a governmental portal for all enterprise services and
information stored and managed by the Public Sector. This proposal was accepted by the
Department for Business Administration in September 2002 and opened on September 2. 2003 as
the first of kind in Europe.

Soren also participated in the proposal team for the Danish Health Care Portal. The winning
consortium for the Health portal based their solution on IBM Websphere and the security
architecture proposed by IBM. This portal was twice (in 2003 and 2004) awarded the EU eHealth
award. (sundhed.dk) was developed and operated by Acure, now an IBM company, until 2009.

During 2002 Soren participated in a task force advising the conservative Minister for Business and
Economy on Government IT strategy and services for enterprises. In July 2002 Soren was
nominated by the Minister of Science, Technology and Development as a board member of the
Danish Technology Council advising the Danish Parliament and Government on issues and
opportunities concerning new technology. The main activities for the Technology Council concern
assessments of impact of technology on society - economical, ethical, environmental impact on
health, quality of life, work and living conditions. He was a again in 2005 nominated a seat at the
board of the Danish Technology Council representing the Danish Industry and participates actively
in a number of IT-related tasks for the Council. This second and last term ended July 2008.

In the last 8 years Soren has been actively involved in advising the projects concerning secure
public infrastructure, e-procurement, digital copy rights, security & privacy. He was awarded as the
best presenter at the PISTA conference in 2003 in Orlando for a paper on Cybersecurity and
Privacy. In 2003 Soren was named part of team working with the Danish Digital Task Force to
develop the next 4-year plan for eGovernment in Denmark. In 2004 he was invited as a guest
speaker to the annual eGovernment EU-conference in Zakopane, Poland on secure infrastructure.

Soren worked closely with the EU Telecities/Knowledge Society Forum (part of Eurocities)
consisting of the 130 most advanced (major) cities of Europe and has participated in a number of
working groups on Life Long Learning, on Citizen Self Service, on security and lately on Privacy
Health, Green Cities and mGovernment. From 2005 to 2010 he was IBM’s contact person for
Eurocities/Knowledge Society Forum as it is now called.

During the autumn of 2004 Soren has been active working together with Danish Business Partners
in preparation of the Danish Goverment structural reform identifying needs and solutions for this
major re-organisation of the government landscape in Denmark. His work has resulted in 2 books
containing advices and best practices on how to use ICT to restructure the Danish Municipals and
regional authorities.

In 2005 Soren started a new project on preventive pervasive health care together with the City of
Naestved, 2 Danish counties,and the private Health Care provider Falck. The objective of the
project was to make a proof of concept using state-of-the-art medical solutions linked to call centre
services, General Practitioners and nurses.

Since 2006 Soren has participated in several cases nationally as well as international on secure
border lanes, anti-terror activities, crisis management and communication systems as well as
privacy related topics

From 2007 to 2010 Soren was a member of Greenland’s IT Council, advising the Home rule in
Greenland on IT strategy, including advice on telemedicine, eLearning, citizen services etc.
on IT issues and opportunities.
Soren became chairman of the board for the Alexandra Institute’s Research centre for Security,
Århus, DK from 2007 to 2009.

Since 2007 member of IBM Denmark’s Innovation Council.

In 2009 Soren was appointed personal member of the Board of Representatives for the Danish
Technology Council appointed by the Minister of Science and Technology

On July 1. 2010 Soren was offered retirement from IBM as a senior eGovernment Advisor and
continued Government engagements from his own company while preparing for the role as teacher
at the Master’s level of the Danish IT University in the topic of eGovernment.

Since January 1, 2010 Soren was hired by the Greenland Government as a facilitator for the New
Greenland Government ICT strategy. This strategy included a number of negotiations and
development of relevant prioritization models. The final strategy will be presented to the Greenland
Government – Nalaakkersuisut – this spring and hopefully accepted.

In parallel with the preparation for the course of eGovernment at the Master's Level for the IT
University of Denmark, Soren has been active in several organisations including the Biometrics'
discussion forum, a member of the Danish IT Think-tank 'Denmark 3.0', participation in the e-
Election planning group established by the Technology Board and in general as a writer of relevant
e-Government blogs (http://sorenduus.blogspot.com).

In August the first group of eGovernment students started at the IT-University, and after 14
extended lessons, the participants rated the course as one of the very best at ITU. From January
Soren is supporting 2 groups of students for their master thesis on eGovernment – one team
analysing Greenland's ICT strategy and portal perspectives, and one studying the impact of
Electronic Health solutions on citizens.

Soren became a member of the advisory board for the HINC3-conference: History of IT in the
Nordic Countries. He participated in the conference in Stockholm in October, organized by the
Technical University of Kista, Stockholm, with a paper on the early history of computing in
Denmark from 1910 to 1950.


EU-related activities

Soren has participated in a number of EU-related projects:
Member of the steering committee for the European Nervous System project CARE lead by the
World Health Organisation in Copenhagen. (88 – 92)
Member of the IMPACT projects Hans Christian Andersen and Safe Way, both together with the
Danish Ministry of Education and the Danish Organisation responsible for developing educational
multimedia material. (91-94)
Member of the Danish National committee for following the IMPACT programme referring to the
Ministry of Science and Technology. (1990-95)
Member of the LINGUA supported project to provide distance learning in Danish to foreign
students. (93-95)
Evaluator for DG XIII in the IMPACT and later INFO2000 programme.
Accepted as an external expert by DGXIII in the area of Trust and Confidence since 1999.
Member of the steering committee for a preparatory action project ODA – Open Digital
Administration – demonstration the application of secure on line transactions between citizens and
government and between business and government. (2000-2002)
Co-author of a white paper on Life Long learning presented to the Telecities’ conference in
Antwerp autumn 2002
Co-Author of an industry white paper on Contents Management presented at the EU Conference on
Digital Library Management in Barcelona, May 2002.
Paper on Privacy and Security delivered at the Telecities’ conference summer 2003 Tampere,
Finland.
Member of Telecities working group for Privacy and Security (2002 - 2007)
Participated together with The National Danish procurement Organisation and the Business Partner
inno:vasion in the EU-award contest with the tendering solution ETHICS, awarded one of the top 5
eGovernment solutions in Europe. 2003
Keynote speaker at the EISCO conference in Aalborg November 2003.
Keynote speaker at the EU conference summer 2004 in Zakopane, Poland
Invited guest speaker at the first European Conference on interoperability in Zurich, Jan. 2005
Invited guest speaker at the PISTA – Public Information Systems, Technology and Applications –
in Orlando 2005 on electronic procurement and tendering
Invited guest speaker at the 4. Eastern European Conference on eGovernment in Prague, April
19-22 2006 on ETHICS experiences
Invited speaker at a conference on IT in Nuuk, Greenland, Nov, 2006
Invited speaker at the IDC conference on ‘The future of eGovernment’, Copenhagen Nov. 2006
Keynote Speaker at the PISTA Conference in Orlando, 2007: ‘From eGovernment to eSociety’
Member of the advisory board for PRISE – Privacy and Security – a preparatory project advising
evaluators for 7th framework program as well as consortia about guidelines for protecting privacy.
This project ended in April 2008
Invited guest speaker for the 6th Eastern European Conference on eGovernment in Prague, April
2008 on Web 2.0 in Government.
Invited speaker at the WMSCI-multiconference, Orlando, June 2008 on ‘How can eGovernment
benefit from web 2.0?’ This presentation was awarded best of class and later published in the
International Scientific Journal SCI2009.
Invited speaker for the PISTA conference in 2009 on trends and challenges in eIdentity
Management.

Educational/scientific background

Master Economist, Copenhagen University school of Economics, 1970
Won the ‘Zeuthen Price’ in 1970 for a thesis on “Stochastic Investment Criteria and Decision
Models” Published in Swedish Journal of Economics, 1970.
Headed the internal IBM Training from 1975-1976 for all IBM marketing and service employees in
the Nordic Countries
The IBM Management School including participation in Harvard Business School summer
universities: Presidents’ class and Financial Manager’s class 1978 and 1979
Member of the ministerial committee to transform the Danish High School in 1986-1988
Member of the subcommittee to define the study of Economics and business in High School
Chairman, Rungsted Gymnasium, (largest Danish High School) from 1989 to 1995.
External Censor at the Copenhagen Business School since 1990 in the following topics:
Managerial Finance, Strategy and Management, Information Economics, Philosophy since 1993.
External Censor for the Master of Public Administration education, Copenhagen Business School
for Rhetorics.
External Censor at the IT University, in a number of IT related topics – IT Strategy, eCommerce,
Information Economics, Enterprise Architecture and eGovernance - since 2001 and since 2003 for
eBusiness/enterprise architecture
Chairman, Alexandra Institute Research Centre for Security 2007 – 2009
External Lecturer, E-government , IT University 2010 -


Private Life and Hobbies

Soren is an author and a member of the Royal Danish Student’s Theatre organisation, Kgl.
Mayesties Acteurs that has produced annual spexes and show since 1826 with the Royal Family as
members and sponsors. Soren was named president for the organisation from 1991 – 1999 and has
produced the history of this organisation
He is a member of the Danish Press Association – Publicistklubben – and a member of the Vintage
Cars association of Denmark.
In 1999 he created his own multimedia publishing company together with his 2 sons, Kristian and
Anders Duus Østergaard. (www.duus.com )
In 2005 this company launched a large multimedia project consisting of 6 CD-roms with several
hundred hours interviews, video clips and descriptions of the German occupation of Denmark
1940-1945. This project was a result of a joint project with late Jes Løvendahl, a friend and a
dedicated teacher. The project was supported by the Ministry of Education and is being used in a
number of schools and high schools.
In 2010 Soren started a project on the History of IBM Denmark, due in a couple of years and based
on interviews with a number of former employees and customers.

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  • 1. CV – April 2011 Soren Duus Oestergaard Senior eGovernment Advisor, CEO and co-founder of Duus.Communication External Lecturer – eGovernment – IT University of Copenhagen 2010- Associated member of EAFellows – a network of Enterprise Architect advisors Age: 65 Years with IBM: 40 Married to Lisa Østergaard since 1967, 2 children, Kristian 1972, Anders 1974 Professional Profile Soren worked with IBM from 1970 to 2010 in a number of management positions: Marketing Training Manager for IBM for the Nordic Countries, Marketing Manager for Local Government and Health Sector in Denmark, Account Planning and Financial Marketing Manager IBM DK Staff, Marketing Manager for Education and Science Sector IBM Denmark, Public Sector Market Development Manager, EU Program Manager for IBM Denmark, Nordic MultiMedia Marketing Manager, e-business Marketing advisor IBM Nordics and senior eGovernment Advisor, EMEA, within IBM Software Group from 1998 to 2010. Experience During Soren’s trainee period he worked at the Systems Engineering HQ of IBM Denmark. In1970-71 he developed a proof-of-concept simulation model for container traffic management for the Maersk Company. This later resulted in the creation of Maersk Logistics, acquired by IBM in 2005. Soren developed the methodology to analyse the IT-requirements for information management systems for local government through a major study together with Kommunedata DK (Later KMD), the City of Aalborg and other IBM colleagues 1971-72, including the requirements for procurement and financial management. As a result of this he was promoted to Government data processing relations and Application development Account Representative. Assisted the National Association for Local Government/National Government in DK to define the requirements and design the IT architecture for the Financial System being implemented in the late 1970’s, initiated the development of a Local Government based decentralised financial management system in 1978-1980. In 1974-75 he was Marketing Training Manager for IBM Nordics responsible for internal training of IBM'ers in the Nordic countries. He renewed the curriculum for the IBM’ers reflecting larger and more complex Enterprise customers including Financial Management and Strategic Management as topics in the curriculum. Following a position as Marketing Manager for Local/regional Government and Health Sector, Denmark, Soren was responsible for introducing IBM Leasing within IBM as well as ‘special bids’ – flexible contracts as a part of his responsibility for Account Planning for the large customers in Denmark.
  • 2. Soren was responsible for establishing and managing the Danish IBM Marketing and support team for the Education and Science sector from 1983 to 1988, and during this period he assisted the Ministry of Education in defining strategies, design of the new High School structure and new topics, like Financial Management at high school level. A number of Study contract projects were established testing and developing solutions for education and training using multimedia, distance learning and advanced simulation and 3D graphic systems. As responsible for Market Development, Public Sector (1988 – 1992), participated in selection of decentralised financial management/ERP and procurement systems for Government and Public Sector and developed methodology for Management Consulting approaches (TQM) to Government and performed a number of consulting engagements, primarily with local governments during this period. From '89 a number of EU related development programs were initiated with customers, and Soren became a member of the Ministry of IT and Technology’s IMPACT –group representing the IT industry. At the same time he represented the IT industry in the board of advisers for the Telecommunication Board regarding IT support for handicapped and disabled. As responsible for MultiMedia and Internet Solutions Soren and his team pioneered a number of areas including videoconferencing and telemedicine, where the first Danish projects were launched in 1992-1993 between Skive and Viborg hospitals. Also a number of the first Danish secure internet payment solutions stating with the Egmont Bookstore and PBS were launched. This group also pioneered large industries’ as well as city’s and Counties first web based solutions in Denmark. 3D visualization of architectural design and citizen internet services also were pioneered during the mid 90’ies. In parallel, as an advisor to major industrial organisations Soren and his team assisted in defined the Internet strategy for several companies, municipalities and counties (Health care, Distribution, Retail, Media, Banking) also including their relationship with suppliers and buyers. Soren worked closely with the IBM EMEA e-procurement organisation since it was founded in 1997 and participated in developing and testing strategic methods. From 1998 he was named Senior e-government advisor, SWG Business Development Manager, Government & Health Care Business Solutions Industry Leader, IBM North, Central, Eastern Europe and Middle East. As a senior e-government advisor he participated in a number of e-procurement cases. Soren has been active in the Baltic Countries since mid 90'es, where he has discussed and advised on e- government in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. He has participated in preparatory work for the e- procurement activities of the World Health Organisation and given advice to the United Nations Procurement Agency that is head quartered in Copenhagen. He became a member of the IBM EMEA e-defence team in 2000. During 2000-2001 Soren was the chairman of the ITB – The IT industry Association’s committee for proposing strategic directions for the Government in relation to Broadband and is a member of the Danish Broadband Think-tank. He has been a keynote speaker on e-procurement in several international conferences in the Middle East, in Riga, Tallinn, in den Hague NATO EPIS Conference in 2001, and a number of national conferences in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. He has worked closely with the Danish Government Procurement agency, SKI and has been instrumental to set up a global alliance between the business partner Inno:vasion and IBM Lotus to market the Tendering Solution ETHICS – Electronic Tender Handling and Information Communication System. This includes proposals to the World Bank and
  • 3. to the EU. The solution is installed in Portugal for the Central Government (UMIC) and in Slovakia (2006) for the Slovakian Ministry of Transportation/eGovernment office of Slovakia, recently in Department of Health, Nuuk, Greenland. The solution has since been marketed globally by IBM SWG Government industry team. Soren has participated in a number of major proposals in the Middle East, Dubai Internet City, a project for the IT design of a new city of 300.000 inhabitants and a number of smaller eGovernment projects in the region. In 2003 he was the co-author of a white paper to the Government of Quatar 'The making of an e-Society'. Based partly on this recommendation, Quatar won the UN eGovernment initiative award in 2004. He has advised Governments of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Quatar and Oman on Service Oriented Architecture in relation to eGovernment. Soren was a member of the Danish team of IBM’ers that was awarded the contract for qualified software to ensure the implementation of the Danish Law on Digital Signatures. The tender contract was awarded to 2 organisations accepted as qualified certification authorities and to 2 SW vendors that are accepted as vendors on secure SW infrastructure for government agencies that want to establish their own CA-service. In this capacity he has advised the Danish IT Task Force on ways to implement Public Key Infrastructure at a large scale. He was for several years a member of IBM’s global council for Privacy and has given a number of presentations on implementation of PKI and security in the Baltic Countries, Poland, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Faroe Islands, Telecities/EU, Central/Eastern Europe. During 2002 Soren headed a consortium consisting of CSC, CapGemini, EDBGruppen, Dafolo, Verisign proposing for the Danish PKI tender for 'lightweight' Digital Certificates. The consortium was awarded a price for one of the best proposals. Later IBM and partners had to withdraw from final tender because of insufficient public funding. And instead joined forces with the remaining 2 consortia offering a vast number of add on services needed for the Danish PKI infrastructure Soren participated in the proposal team for a governmental portal for all enterprise services and information stored and managed by the Public Sector. This proposal was accepted by the Department for Business Administration in September 2002 and opened on September 2. 2003 as the first of kind in Europe. Soren also participated in the proposal team for the Danish Health Care Portal. The winning consortium for the Health portal based their solution on IBM Websphere and the security architecture proposed by IBM. This portal was twice (in 2003 and 2004) awarded the EU eHealth award. (sundhed.dk) was developed and operated by Acure, now an IBM company, until 2009. During 2002 Soren participated in a task force advising the conservative Minister for Business and Economy on Government IT strategy and services for enterprises. In July 2002 Soren was nominated by the Minister of Science, Technology and Development as a board member of the Danish Technology Council advising the Danish Parliament and Government on issues and opportunities concerning new technology. The main activities for the Technology Council concern assessments of impact of technology on society - economical, ethical, environmental impact on health, quality of life, work and living conditions. He was a again in 2005 nominated a seat at the board of the Danish Technology Council representing the Danish Industry and participates actively in a number of IT-related tasks for the Council. This second and last term ended July 2008. In the last 8 years Soren has been actively involved in advising the projects concerning secure public infrastructure, e-procurement, digital copy rights, security & privacy. He was awarded as the
  • 4. best presenter at the PISTA conference in 2003 in Orlando for a paper on Cybersecurity and Privacy. In 2003 Soren was named part of team working with the Danish Digital Task Force to develop the next 4-year plan for eGovernment in Denmark. In 2004 he was invited as a guest speaker to the annual eGovernment EU-conference in Zakopane, Poland on secure infrastructure. Soren worked closely with the EU Telecities/Knowledge Society Forum (part of Eurocities) consisting of the 130 most advanced (major) cities of Europe and has participated in a number of working groups on Life Long Learning, on Citizen Self Service, on security and lately on Privacy Health, Green Cities and mGovernment. From 2005 to 2010 he was IBM’s contact person for Eurocities/Knowledge Society Forum as it is now called. During the autumn of 2004 Soren has been active working together with Danish Business Partners in preparation of the Danish Goverment structural reform identifying needs and solutions for this major re-organisation of the government landscape in Denmark. His work has resulted in 2 books containing advices and best practices on how to use ICT to restructure the Danish Municipals and regional authorities. In 2005 Soren started a new project on preventive pervasive health care together with the City of Naestved, 2 Danish counties,and the private Health Care provider Falck. The objective of the project was to make a proof of concept using state-of-the-art medical solutions linked to call centre services, General Practitioners and nurses. Since 2006 Soren has participated in several cases nationally as well as international on secure border lanes, anti-terror activities, crisis management and communication systems as well as privacy related topics From 2007 to 2010 Soren was a member of Greenland’s IT Council, advising the Home rule in Greenland on IT strategy, including advice on telemedicine, eLearning, citizen services etc. on IT issues and opportunities. Soren became chairman of the board for the Alexandra Institute’s Research centre for Security, Århus, DK from 2007 to 2009. Since 2007 member of IBM Denmark’s Innovation Council. In 2009 Soren was appointed personal member of the Board of Representatives for the Danish Technology Council appointed by the Minister of Science and Technology On July 1. 2010 Soren was offered retirement from IBM as a senior eGovernment Advisor and continued Government engagements from his own company while preparing for the role as teacher at the Master’s level of the Danish IT University in the topic of eGovernment. Since January 1, 2010 Soren was hired by the Greenland Government as a facilitator for the New Greenland Government ICT strategy. This strategy included a number of negotiations and development of relevant prioritization models. The final strategy will be presented to the Greenland Government – Nalaakkersuisut – this spring and hopefully accepted. In parallel with the preparation for the course of eGovernment at the Master's Level for the IT University of Denmark, Soren has been active in several organisations including the Biometrics' discussion forum, a member of the Danish IT Think-tank 'Denmark 3.0', participation in the e-
  • 5. Election planning group established by the Technology Board and in general as a writer of relevant e-Government blogs (http://sorenduus.blogspot.com). In August the first group of eGovernment students started at the IT-University, and after 14 extended lessons, the participants rated the course as one of the very best at ITU. From January Soren is supporting 2 groups of students for their master thesis on eGovernment – one team analysing Greenland's ICT strategy and portal perspectives, and one studying the impact of Electronic Health solutions on citizens. Soren became a member of the advisory board for the HINC3-conference: History of IT in the Nordic Countries. He participated in the conference in Stockholm in October, organized by the Technical University of Kista, Stockholm, with a paper on the early history of computing in Denmark from 1910 to 1950. EU-related activities Soren has participated in a number of EU-related projects: Member of the steering committee for the European Nervous System project CARE lead by the World Health Organisation in Copenhagen. (88 – 92) Member of the IMPACT projects Hans Christian Andersen and Safe Way, both together with the Danish Ministry of Education and the Danish Organisation responsible for developing educational multimedia material. (91-94) Member of the Danish National committee for following the IMPACT programme referring to the Ministry of Science and Technology. (1990-95) Member of the LINGUA supported project to provide distance learning in Danish to foreign students. (93-95) Evaluator for DG XIII in the IMPACT and later INFO2000 programme. Accepted as an external expert by DGXIII in the area of Trust and Confidence since 1999. Member of the steering committee for a preparatory action project ODA – Open Digital Administration – demonstration the application of secure on line transactions between citizens and government and between business and government. (2000-2002) Co-author of a white paper on Life Long learning presented to the Telecities’ conference in Antwerp autumn 2002 Co-Author of an industry white paper on Contents Management presented at the EU Conference on Digital Library Management in Barcelona, May 2002. Paper on Privacy and Security delivered at the Telecities’ conference summer 2003 Tampere, Finland. Member of Telecities working group for Privacy and Security (2002 - 2007) Participated together with The National Danish procurement Organisation and the Business Partner inno:vasion in the EU-award contest with the tendering solution ETHICS, awarded one of the top 5 eGovernment solutions in Europe. 2003 Keynote speaker at the EISCO conference in Aalborg November 2003. Keynote speaker at the EU conference summer 2004 in Zakopane, Poland Invited guest speaker at the first European Conference on interoperability in Zurich, Jan. 2005 Invited guest speaker at the PISTA – Public Information Systems, Technology and Applications – in Orlando 2005 on electronic procurement and tendering Invited guest speaker at the 4. Eastern European Conference on eGovernment in Prague, April 19-22 2006 on ETHICS experiences Invited speaker at a conference on IT in Nuuk, Greenland, Nov, 2006
  • 6. Invited speaker at the IDC conference on ‘The future of eGovernment’, Copenhagen Nov. 2006 Keynote Speaker at the PISTA Conference in Orlando, 2007: ‘From eGovernment to eSociety’ Member of the advisory board for PRISE – Privacy and Security – a preparatory project advising evaluators for 7th framework program as well as consortia about guidelines for protecting privacy. This project ended in April 2008 Invited guest speaker for the 6th Eastern European Conference on eGovernment in Prague, April 2008 on Web 2.0 in Government. Invited speaker at the WMSCI-multiconference, Orlando, June 2008 on ‘How can eGovernment benefit from web 2.0?’ This presentation was awarded best of class and later published in the International Scientific Journal SCI2009. Invited speaker for the PISTA conference in 2009 on trends and challenges in eIdentity Management. Educational/scientific background Master Economist, Copenhagen University school of Economics, 1970 Won the ‘Zeuthen Price’ in 1970 for a thesis on “Stochastic Investment Criteria and Decision Models” Published in Swedish Journal of Economics, 1970. Headed the internal IBM Training from 1975-1976 for all IBM marketing and service employees in the Nordic Countries The IBM Management School including participation in Harvard Business School summer universities: Presidents’ class and Financial Manager’s class 1978 and 1979 Member of the ministerial committee to transform the Danish High School in 1986-1988 Member of the subcommittee to define the study of Economics and business in High School Chairman, Rungsted Gymnasium, (largest Danish High School) from 1989 to 1995. External Censor at the Copenhagen Business School since 1990 in the following topics: Managerial Finance, Strategy and Management, Information Economics, Philosophy since 1993. External Censor for the Master of Public Administration education, Copenhagen Business School for Rhetorics. External Censor at the IT University, in a number of IT related topics – IT Strategy, eCommerce, Information Economics, Enterprise Architecture and eGovernance - since 2001 and since 2003 for eBusiness/enterprise architecture Chairman, Alexandra Institute Research Centre for Security 2007 – 2009 External Lecturer, E-government , IT University 2010 - Private Life and Hobbies Soren is an author and a member of the Royal Danish Student’s Theatre organisation, Kgl. Mayesties Acteurs that has produced annual spexes and show since 1826 with the Royal Family as members and sponsors. Soren was named president for the organisation from 1991 – 1999 and has produced the history of this organisation He is a member of the Danish Press Association – Publicistklubben – and a member of the Vintage Cars association of Denmark. In 1999 he created his own multimedia publishing company together with his 2 sons, Kristian and Anders Duus Østergaard. (www.duus.com ) In 2005 this company launched a large multimedia project consisting of 6 CD-roms with several hundred hours interviews, video clips and descriptions of the German occupation of Denmark 1940-1945. This project was a result of a joint project with late Jes Løvendahl, a friend and a
  • 7. dedicated teacher. The project was supported by the Ministry of Education and is being used in a number of schools and high schools. In 2010 Soren started a project on the History of IBM Denmark, due in a couple of years and based on interviews with a number of former employees and customers.